Posts Tagged ‘climbing’

From the foot of the mountain all the way to the topno trace of a person,no sound of a bird.Mighty snowmade the world very silent.Sky and earth deserted.I hoped to find a companion,even a stranger.But in the season for fires,no furnace was lit.Alone going up,alone coming down,I could only trace my own footprints.

12/3/19Translated by MW, May 2020

Lan Bing, orig. name Zhao Ruili, from Tianshui in Gansu. Teacher, member of the Half Past Five Poetry Society. 《新诗典》小档案：蓝冰，本名赵瑞丽，甘肃天水人，教师，五点半诗群成员。

Along the road at the foot of South Mountain,cars are parked everywhere.While we are climbing,the sunlight is fine.There are some other people like us,wearing face masks,talking and laughing.In the city, meeting up is forbidden.So we sneak off,two or three at a time,to the slopes of South Mountainto get outside and feel the wind.